On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Donald Parsons wrote: > Johan, > I am new to unix scanners. I have made a few unsuccessful attempts to get the > same scanner and Solaris8 working. Having read your posts about permissions > in > [sane-devel] I see that my attempts were way off base. I got no device set up. > SCSI saw the scanner with ok> probe-scsi but not in dmesg | grep scsi. > > Can I ask a few questions? > 1. Is 'sgen' operation dependent on the version of Sol 8? Did you use > any patches? (I am using the Jan 01 release /01/01).
I don't know, but I think we have a later version. > 2. Did you use the www.icephyre.net/pkg > SANE_1.0.6+XSANE_0.82-SPARC.pkg.bz2 ? No, I compiled it myself. > 3.What is the indication for using Epson "processor" rather than > "scanner"? Look at the output from probe-scsi-all. > 4. Would you mind sharing with me the key permissions needed and your > final editing of the configuration files? * epson.conf: eru:elijah 9:09 /opt/pd/etc/sane.d > more epson.conf # epson.conf # # here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend # # SCSI scanner: scsi EPSON /dev/scsi/processor/c1t5d0 * sgen.conf: gorthaur:elijah 9:12 ~ > more /kernel/drv/sgen.conf # $Id: sgen_epson.conf,v 1.2 2002/03/27 11:11:04 elijah Exp $ # # sgen config file for the scanners # # sbl, 010820 #modified for epson by elijah 2002-03-26 device-type-config-list="processor"; name="sgen" class="scsi" target=5 lun=0; * Make sure that the epson backend is uncommented in dll.conf gorthaur:/# ls -laL /dev/scsi/processor/c1t5d0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root other 151, 5 Mar 27 12:14 /dev/scsi/processor/c1t5d0 > For /kernel/drv/sgen.conf are you using your modified sgen_epson in place of > "sgen"? No. > I do not know exactly how you are using "/usr/sbin/devfsadm -v -i sgen". I suggest you read the man pages for the devfsadm, modinfo, modload and modunload commands. > When the sgen device nodes are created by devfsadm do you then edit > ..../sane.d/epson.conf for device location and ../sane.d/dll.conf? See above. Best regards, Johan Bengtsson -- http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~elijah/